Go Go Swing Live

Go Go Swing Live is a live album recorded and released in 1986 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.^[4][5][6] The album was recorded at the Crystal Skate (in Temple Hills, Maryland) and at the RSVP (a defunct nightclub in Washington, D.C.)^[7][6]

Go Go Swing Live
Live album by Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers
Released	1986
Recorded	1986
Venue	The Crystal Skate Temple Hills, Maryland
Genre	Go-go swing jazz-funk
Length	61:09
Label	Future Sound Records
Producer	Reo Edwards
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers chronology
Funk Express (1980) Go Go Swing Live (1986) Any Other Way to Go? (1987)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
ARTISTdirect	[2]
musicHound R&B	(4/5)[3]

The album consists of go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat. The album is especially known for remakes of the calypso song "Run Joe", and the swing songs "Stormy Monday" and "It Don't Mean a Thing". The album was ranked No. 1 as the "Best Album Recorded in D.C." by DCist.^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Don't Have the Go Go Swing)"	Duke Ellington Irving Mills	3:15
2.	"Midnight Sun"	Sonny Burke Lionel Hampton Johnny Mercer	3:23
3.	"Moody's Mood"	Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh James Moody	5:07
4.	"Woody Woodpecker"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	2:23
5.	"Harlem Nocturne"	Earle H. Hagen	5:49
6.	"Run Joe"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	8:54
7.	"Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	5:46
8.	"Boogie on Go-Go Woman"	Stevie Wonder	7:02
9.	"Family Affair"	Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart	6:12
10.	"Take the Go-Go Train"	Billy Strayhorn	4:51
11.	"Day-O"	Irving Burgie	8:31
Total length:			61:09

Personnel

• Chuck Brown – lead vocals, electric guitar
• Ricardo D. Wellman – drums
• Rowland Smith – congas, backing vocals
• Glenn Ellis – bass guitar, percussion
• Curtis Johnson – keyboards
• John M. Buchannan – keyboards, trombone
• Leroy Fleming – tenor saxophone, backing vocals
• Donald Tillery – trumpet, tambourine, backing vocals